THERE appears to be a nasty little fiscal flap festering within a San Mateo Little League program.Unconfirmed reports indicate that someone connected to its snack shack operation at Trinta Park may have been removing cash without authorization over an unspecified period of time.
ONE has to wonder how life on the Peninsula would have managed to survive and thrive had there been rabid animal rights activists hard at work a century ago.
THIS may sound like petty carping but, what the heck, let's get it out on the table anyway on a long July Fourth weekend.Does it strike anyone else that the mail delivery habits of some of our dedicated U.
THERE'S A tendency out there to focus on the bad news of the day to the point of magnifying it so much that any perspective is quickly lost, if it was ever there at all.
WITHOUT question, it was a surreal scene. There, in a vast parking lot at the San Mateo County Event Center, were hundreds of gleaming, new recreation vehicles.
Lash Stevenson has a special fondness for local history, especially when it involves sports. So it's logical that the San Mateo barber is worried about the future of artifacts from Bay Meadows.
THE pleasant hamlet of Burlingame observed its centennial last weekend with appropriate flourishes. Its annual Art in the Park fest graced the Washington Park area near the downtown Caltrain station and public high school.
BECAUSE most proposed local tax proposals require a two-thirds vote for approval by voters these days (one no vote equals two of the yes variety), it is becoming much easier to get a handle on their potential for success or failure on Election Night almost as soon as the polls close.
TO say the least, the timing of the event was less than helpful for those promoting the idea that city-operated parks and recreation facilities along the Peninsula were in a state of imminent collapse.
